I see this every now and then where younger lady lawyers have cleavage pushed up and spilling out on one end and a near miniskirt with a slit in the back. Looks like lawyer porn. Not complaining just wondering if it's intentional.

I have done it. Nothing outwardly slutty but maybe a little tight based on a particular audience and otherwise weak legal argument.

I had one office abruptly change the dress code in June to no ankle pants or shorter and this was in a hot climate where you pretty much could not find full length women’s pants at that time of year. No one commented about cleavage baring miniskirts is spaghetti straps. Yep, people were subjected to emails and meetings to discuss pant length while people in the meetings were wearing spaghetti strap mini dresses that were absolutely no problem. Definitely a man making a dress code there.

When I had my job at the firm I worked at, they would at least once ever summer send out a reminder about the dresscode, and all of the things they listed were basically directed toward women, reminding them not to wear capri pants, mini skirts,etc. They've never had an issue with men except for possibly wearing sneakers.

Yeah basically. I remember I had one referee in training observing a proceeding. My expert was a psychologist who watched him stare at the scantily clad legal intern on the other side. She suggested that I might want to dress a bit more seductively in the future with that guy since My employer made a lot of shaky decisions. We won every time.

I guess I'm mostly wondering where the final line is and if it varires by court. I have seen defendants be told they looked inapropriate and one male attorney who boldly showed up in dingy jeans and tshirt, which was a bit nuts, but not a female attorney yet.

The only time I saw an attorney get reprimanded for a dress code violation was when one of the attorneys in our civil division had to appear for a hearing. He has been in my office for years, but most of his work is done in the office and he goes to court maybe twice a decade. So he came to court wearing decent pants, but a golf shirt. The marshall walked over and whispered, "Um, you kind of need a tie to appear." We all gave him crap, and they found this horrendous brown tie that he could wear for the appearance. I guess I can't call it a reprimand because he was warned before court started, but that was the only time I have seen anything done in person.

There was an attorney in my division who went to court without a tie once. I think he did get reprimanded but didn't witness that. No clue what the hell he was thinking.

The nice thing about Guam was Fridays are Islandwear days. You can wear Hawaiian shirts on Fridays with no ties when you appeared.

Wow! I would laugh at an attorney that went to court in a golf shirt. I literally would do nothing but offer stupid deals because of my lack of respect for that attorney. If you can't bother to get a dress shirt then certainly you are not going to have the work ethic to actually prepare a good case for trial.

Not sure how to describe the guy, but he was a great transactional attorney, but just never went to court hearings. I forget why he was there, but I think it was for some civil case having to do with government-owned property.

You can now see 8 year olds and up going and purchasing at Victoria's Secret. So by the time these femmes are in college and even law school they have to have an instagram full of bikini shots to remain popular. Therefore, wearing a bra top thing under a suit is not something shocking to the current generation, I have observed this visiting law schools and pre legal groups.
Get over big suits and the bow blouses or whatever they are called of Melania Trump. This generation would put a jacket over a bikini and call that court wear.

I guess the boss was okay with it and my supervisor is having a conniption. I could hear yelling from her office across the room. I pointed out that they're allowed to wear flip tops, crop pants, and tattoos, so they really can't claim the dress code is professional. There's no way my supervisor will let this go.

Funny dress story. Partner was alone in office one day some years ago just prior to long holiday weekend after having his gallbladder removed and only able to wear sweat pants. The court clerk called asking for an attorney to appear for a bail hearing. Partner explained to clerk his dress issue. The judge said come anyway. In walks partner and talks with defendant who freaks on sight of partner. They appear before the judge instantly. Judge thanks partner profusely for appearing. Partner walks defendant on personal recognisance and spares defendant long weekend in jail. Moral of the story:clothes did not make the man.